DPAS SCR: 02165

Change Request: Policy / Regulatory

Description:

As the Department of Defense (DoD) moves toward enterprise-wide identity and access management, it is increasingly important for systems like ELMS (formerly DPAS) to align with these efforts to ensure consistency and audit readiness. Currently, multiple DoD systems independently manage personnel identity assignments, leading to a fragmented approach across the department. While ELMS has its own effective account tracking mechanisms, broader alignment with authoritative identity services supports a more unified and verifiable accountability structure. A consolidated identity framework would help standardize practices across all services and components.

Recommended:

Integrate ELMS with the Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) to support a DoD-wide authoritative approach to access management. This integration would allow ELMS to reference trusted identity data directly from ICAM. Leveraging ICAM ensures that personnel data and role verification are consistent across systems. It also streamlines reporting and improves coordination with other systems adopting the same authoritative source. This solution aligns with DoD’s strategic goals for digital modernization and interoperability.

Mission Critical:

DoD policies such as DoDI 5000.76 and DoDI 8320.07 emphasize the use of authoritative data sources and the need for accurate, standardized accountability of government property. ICAM is the designated enterprise service for identity and access management and provides a common framework for personnel verification. Integrating with ICAM enhances ELMS’s ability to support these policies while aligning with the DoD’s broader data and cybersecurity strategies. https://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/Cyber/DoD_Enterprise_ICAM_Reference_Design.pdf

Benefits:

1) This integration strengthens ELMS’s ability to support enterprise audit readiness by ensuring accounts and roles are validated against a DoD approved source. 2) It provides a systematic process for ELMS's Account Mgmt. services that is currently a combination of manual and automated tools. 3) It provides greater accountability to manage source records and reduces the redundancy in personnel management across systems.

Frequency:

Users:

All ELMS users and account managers